REAL VALLADOLID Iván Sánchez, at the right time

Óscar Plano’s injury in the goal he scored against Lugo left Real Valladolid an orphan of who, in Pacheta’s opinion, is one of their best interlined footballers. However, at La Rosaleda the blanquivioleta team did not miss the figure of ’10’ thanks to the fact that it emerged, somewhat surprisingly for many, that of Ivan Sanchez. The footballer from Jaen broke into the starting eleven housed on the right side and completed seven dribbles out of the eight he attemptedequaling the best number of a blanquivioleta (Roque Mesa) in the current campaign.

This question is not trivial, given that these ruptures often served to advance in the interior corridor that he frequented, the right-hander, from where he soon looked for a shot, meek, and through which the Pucela grew offensively. It was attack game channeler from that movement and its conductions, which he directed to give depth from a medium height, not necessarily from that of the midfielder, but more next to the engine roomfrom where he progressed and activated a Luis Pérez who, however, did not find many two-for-one options in the match.

This circumstance diminished on occasion to the side also after entering the Silver field; he received too far, with too many meters to advance and without too many supports to go out on the wall. However, like the team in general, he felt better when Iván Sánchez intervened, given the fluidity that the jienense gave: he offered 47 good passes of the 55 that he trieda very high figure, which exceeds the averages even of Roque Mesa (43.7) and Aguado (43) and multiplies that of other players accustomed to acting in their starting position.

From that position internalized by the right, the ’21’ It was relief against the revolutions of Malaga, who did not know how to stop him in any other way than with infractions. They whistled for five, but whenever they could they ‘scratched’ him, given the difficulty of slashing the ball from him thanks to his technical catalog, fundamentally, to how close the leather was, almost sewn to the boot. But he did not wrinkle either, since he won no less than 13 of 16 duels, which denotes a strength that also helped him grow. It was, because he added individually and collectively, who got the team out of the jam, in greater measure than Monchu on the left-handed intermediate step.

Precisely, in the absence of the Balearic Islands and Aguado, with better numbers than sensations, ended up acting as a steering wheelanother possibility slipped by Pacheta upon his arrival, since he knew his conditions more than enough, after training him at Elche, and alternative with which to grow in depending on what contexts. He appeared, in short, at the best moment, in one in which the group needed those skills that he wielded because of how much the initial framework of Málaga meant and because of the need to replace Óscar Plano, whose place he can continue to occupy as long as the coach and the high competition allow it.